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Post by janie on Mar 23, 2010 19:28:25 GMT -5
This is a sport we don't have, and never hear about, in the US. What is it? It looks like basketball without a backboard. It seems to be a girls-only sport. Do people play netball in Canada?
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Post by janie on Mar 25, 2010 6:40:26 GMT -5
Netball?
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Post by leelee on Mar 25, 2010 10:58:43 GMT -5
I think it's mostly played in Australia. It seems like a gimped version of basketball and handball to me. Handball is a sport that really should be more popular here.
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Post by The Chloe on Mar 27, 2010 1:48:24 GMT -5
Never heard of it.
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Post by Maeby Fünke on Mar 27, 2010 20:00:30 GMT -5
We played it at school. Or, I stood about while people played it around me. Its like basketball except you can't run with the ball, because girls are too delicate for that sort of thing. It blows.
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Post by Edna Krabappel on Mar 27, 2010 20:02:30 GMT -5
Yeah, they showed it once on Eurosport for some reason. It does look like basketball, only much, much less dynamic.
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Post by Edna Krabappel on Mar 27, 2010 20:10:35 GMT -5
Handball is a sport that really should be more popular here. It's awesome, I used to play it. It's also very rough, although it may not look like that on TV. |
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Post by Denise49IQ on Mar 27, 2010 20:34:57 GMT -5
OMG netball!!!!!! I remember, in primary school, I used to play it in the yard with all the girls while the boys played football. I fucking ROCKED at being the one allowed in the semi-circle to shoot (that was a rule I think - only like 2 people on each team could actually shoot, and you'd have to be inside the circle). But then when it came to competitions, the teacher who organised it had a son who would always be allowed to play with his best friend, but I never got picked for the team. Serious WTF, but,  in hindsight. |
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Post by The Chloe on Mar 27, 2010 22:33:24 GMT -5
Oh. Maybe I did play this game. It's stupid.
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Post by janie on Mar 28, 2010 6:25:01 GMT -5
Okay, I'm more confused than ever. It's awesome, it's stupid.  Though it's fun to learn from Willow that some kids in all nations somehow manage to avoid activity in gym class.  So what I don't get is, do girls get a choice of basketball vs netball and some choose netball, or is no girls' basketball played in netball countries? Are there pro leagues, and rabid netball fans and stuff? |
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Post by Edna Krabappel on Mar 28, 2010 7:50:57 GMT -5
I don't think anyone in this thread said that netball is awesome. There is a thread on WTAW about some pro netball league, so I guess there are rabid fans. |
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Post by janie on Mar 28, 2010 8:05:27 GMT -5
Ha, you're right, I misread your post saying that HANDball is awesome.  So I guess the part I imagined I read about it being "very rough" is also probably not true of gentle Netball. |
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Post by janie on Aug 23, 2010 17:02:29 GMT -5
from an article about the Women's Rugby World Cup, now underway in England:
The tournament represents an opportunity not only for individual players, but also for the game as a whole. While the men’s sport garners international coverage, the women’s version struggles for news media attention even in rugby-fixated New Zealand.
“We lose out not only to men’s rugby, but to netball, which is well established as the top female sport,” said the team’s captain, Melissa Ruscoe.
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Post by Maeby Fünke on Aug 23, 2010 17:45:51 GMT -5
I think that says more about womens sport than it does about netball.
One thing I will say in its favour is that scoring is quite tricky, because theres no backboard, and you can't slamdunk because theres no running. Once at school we played basketball indoors, probably because it was raining, and I was standing about in the middle of the court, and someone gave me the ball so I threw it at the basket and it went in, and I wasn't even wearing my glasses.
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Post by Edna Krabappel on Aug 23, 2010 19:33:38 GMT -5
Oh, there's coverage of Women's Rugby World Cup on Eurosport. Needless to say, I haven't watched.
Netball. I remember now. There was an Australian teenage series on TV here ages ago. There were a few references to netball. And they kept translating it as "volleyball". It was annoying.
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Post by janie on Aug 23, 2010 19:37:58 GMT -5
I would have loved a sport with "No Running" being one of the rules! In high school gym we got to try archery, which suited me perfectly, but that was unfortunately only for ONE DAY.
I found out about this women's rugby World Cup from a young Facebook friend, the daughter of a real-life friend of mine, whom I don't really know but who "friended" me for some reason. She plays rugby herself and apparently knows at least some of the players on the US team. I'm pretty sure she was one of those girls in gym class who participates willingly in the active stuff.
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Post by Edna Krabappel on Aug 23, 2010 19:53:04 GMT -5
We did some rhythmic gymnastic on year. God, it was hideous. A friend of mine almost failed PE that year because she absolutely refused to prance around looking ridiculous.
Mostly we just played volleyball and I loved it, but then I almost killed some people and I had to tone it down, and it was a lot less fun then.
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Post by janie on Aug 23, 2010 20:08:39 GMT -5
Ha, at least someone was getting into the game. Edna Krabappel, Overly Exuberant Athlete.
I'm having fun picturing the rugby-type girls, and also the obese or clumsy ones, attempting rhythmic gymnastics. That's another sport, if it is a sport, that's completely nonexistent in US schools or awareness.
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Post by Wagasi on Aug 25, 2010 21:08:31 GMT -5
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Post by janie on May 23, 2012 7:33:49 GMT -5
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